Autumn 1943

By Autumn 1943 In Danton Kentucky The Government Has Converted The Small Town'S College Into An Army Air Corps Pre-Preflight Facility The Nearby State Mental Hospital Into A Treatment Center For Soldiers Suffering Battle-Fatigue And Installs A Satellite Pow Camp In The South End Of Town. Major Sam Ross A Fighter Pilot Shot Down And Badly Wounded In Tunisia Arrives To Take Command Of The School. Ross Also An Excellent Musician Has A Chance Encounter With A Widowed Schoolteacher With Whom He Falls In Love But Faces Possible Rejection Because Of Her Teenage Son. Woven Into The Story Are The Accounts Of An Anti-Nazi German Prisoner Of War Who Fearing For His Life Escapes One Pow Camp And Tries To Get To The Danton Pow Facility; Attempts To Heal Battle Fatigue Especially A Case Involving A Heinous Crime Perpetrated By German Captors On A U.S. Soldier Later Liberated; An Itinerant Evangelist Gassed In France In Wwi And His Musically Gifted Wife; The Wisdom Of A One-Legged Railroad-Crossing Watchman A Veteran Of The Spanish-American War; The Searching For Meaning By A Ministerial Student; A Night-Club/Big-Band Songstress; And How It Was In Small-Town U.S.A. In The Precise Time-Frame Of Autumn 1943.